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'Impossibly Hard to Call a Bottom'

Stocks limped their way through Friday's session, with the usual suspects in the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushing the bellwether index even further past its bear-market lows.

Leading the decliners Friday in the Dow industrial index were Citigroup, off 56 cents, or 22%, to $1.95; Bank of America, down 14 cents, or 3.6%, to 3.79; General Electric, down 68 cents, or 6.8%, to 9.38; and General Motors, off 23 cents, or 12%, to 1.77.